Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2277

Ehrenhaft Correspondence – To, from and about Felix Ehrenhaft

1942

 

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Carbon of letter from Felix Ehrenhaft from Heath’s home at Roadsend Gardens, Elkridge, Maryland, introducing Heath to Ludwig von Mises in New York City.

May 5, 1942

 

FELIX  EHRENHAFT

    540 West 57th Street, New York City

 

My dear Prof. von Mises:

I am writing to you from the beautiful country home of my very dear friend, Spencer Heath, at Elkridge, near Baltimore, Maryland. My wife, whom you have known until lately as Lilly Rona, is here with me and we are visiting here after attending the Baltimore meetings of the American Physical Society at which I have read and presented some papers concerning my researches and discoveries of the magnetic current.

 My friend, Mr. Heath, with whom we are staying, I first met in New York some two years ago at a series of meetings and discussions of the philosophy of science. My attention was then drawn to his apparently wide and philosophic understanding of the natural and exact sciences. For a large part of his life, except for a few years in the practice of law, he has been occupied in aeronaut­ical engineering developments and manufactures by his own companies and organizations until a few years ago when he sold out all his properties and patents to a larger company with whom he was engaged for some time as a research engin­eer before he became fully retired. He therefore has a strong practical point of view, in addition to his capacity for scientific and philosophical thought.

 Mr. Heath has been giving much attention to the fundamentals underlying all the natural sciences, with a view to first steps in establishing a science of society upon precisely the same foundations. His ideas in this field seem to be very original, and he has made quite an extensive development of them in a book entitled “The Energy Concept of Population.”

 Knowing so well the direction of your own thought in this field, I think it might interest you very much to know something of the kind of work he is doing. He consents to let me send to you with this letter the table of con­tents and some specimen pages of his present work. If you find this at all interesting I am sure Mr. Heath will feel very honored to let me send you also a copy of his completed manuscript. Please let me hear from you in regard to it.

 I am finding much encouragement in the development of my own special work and in gaining the recognition for it that its importance deserves. My wife joins me in sending our very best wishes and high personal regards.

Sincerely yours,

 

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Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2277

Penned letter to Heath from Felix Ehrenhaft

May 8, 1942

 

My dear Mr. Heath

Dear Friend

     This is the first letter which I write quiet alone. Please forgive the mistakes but I hope you will understand everything.

     First of all I thank you very much for your kind hospitality. I am very sad that I saw only two frogs. I hope to see in the future again six frogs.

     Second: The address of Professor Ludwig von Mises

 

777 West End Av

N. Y. City

Teleph. MO27877

 

Please correct on my letter the first name. I have written “Heinrich” instead of “Ludwig”

 

     Third. Mrs. Rona has forgotten her typewriter. Please bring it with you at your next visit which I hope will be very soon.

 

     Best regards from Mrs. Rona Ehrenhaft

 

In friendship

Very sincerely yours

 

/s/ F Ehrenhaft

 

 

Dr. ________wants to be remembered to you.

 

 

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Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2277

Penned letter to Heath from Felix Ehrenhaft,

340 W. 57^th Street, New York City

May 16, 1942

 

Dear Dr. Heath

    

Professor Ludwig Mises, N.Y.C. 777 West End Ave, phoned me yesterday. He said to me he was very obliged that I have brought him in touch with you, a person of much qualities.

    

Prof Mises asked me to send him the book. He would also like to know when you will come to New York. He will be very glad to talk things over then with you. I ask you therefore to get in touch with him directly with reference to me.

    

Please bring the typewriter if you come to New York. I hope to hear from you very soon.

 

Mrs. Ehrenhaft and ____________ want to be remembered with kindest regards.

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ F Ehrenhaft

 

Excuse my terrible handwriting

 

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Carbon of letter to Felix Ehrenhaft, 540 West 57^th Street, New York City

May 21, 1942

 

Dear Dr. Ehrenhaft:

So many thanks for all your trouble and interest in getting me in touch with Professor Ludwig von Mises. It was kind of him to telephone to you concerning the letters we sent him and I do hope you have loaned him the full volume and that he is finding it interesting and worthwhile, as I very much believe it to be.

 I hope you will pardon my unseemly delay in writing to you and thanking you. I have been in Winchester and Washington and trying to make my arrangements to come to New York very soon. I have been expecting to come before now. That is partly the reason I have not written till now. However, it seems now that I cannot very well come until after the 28^th — unless I make a very short trip and return here before that time. I can do that if it seems important to do so.

 I am sorry about the typewriter being left behind and hope you have not been greatly in need of it. If you need it very much or very soon please drop me a line or a card and I will have it well packaged up and in the Express Company’s hands the same day I hear from you.

 I have had quite a lot of plans for taking my daughter Beatrice with me to New York and also to Canada, but the gasoline situation has been getting worse in Canada as well as here and she has not been able to leave Winchester until after the 23rd. She expects to be back here this weekend or early next week and then we will do something definite.

 My very best regards to Mrs. Ehrenhaft and to your good coadjutor, Dr. Banet. I enjoyed having you all here and hope to have you again if you can endure again my very crude accommodations.

 I am writing to Prof, von Mises and hope to have the pleasure of meeting him before very long. If you have not done so please let him have the full copy that I loaned to Mrs. Ehrenhaft. I have none other available to send him.

                                 Cordially yours,